Fuse-clip.



No. 84Q,159. PATENTE@ APR. z, 1907.

F. R. PARKER, FUSE LIP,

APPLIOATION FILED MAE. 14, 1906.

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ASSGNOR TO FRANK B.

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Specication of Letters ".Patent.

Eatented April 2, 1907.

unlication led Harel: l, 1905. Serial No. 306,087.

State oi'ill'inois, have invented a new and useful Fuse-Clip, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accomparr,V ing drawings, iliustrating saine.

My invention reiat'es to springr meansior clamping electrical fuses in circn it, and more particularly to spring means for matematicially clamping tubular or incl; `fuses in place and a circuit-conductor ther cto.

The principal objects of my invention are to provide a spring-ciip which automatically holds the terminal of a fuse in niece and at the same time autoinaicallyh a circuitconductor which is connected in circuit with the fuse, to provide eonipactness iii-such a springclamping device, and to provide sirnpiicity of construction and cheapness o1" manufacture in such a springen? lleretoiore it has heen customary, to rou vide a spring-clip to hold the terniinal o the fuse in place and an entirely separate clip or screw. connection to hold a circu 'i3-wire in circuit with the inse. This necesi .stes two entirely separate partawhich gio the cost of manufacture which also generally produces an extra cont-ect in the circuit between the conductor connection and the iuse-cliplyA In the device of my present invention I ada t one single piece of spring metal so as to c amp lioththe fuse-terminal and the circuit-Wire in place, thereby een' ting one to the other. it will he readiiy seen that this construction is very simple and economical to manufacture and that it requires much less space for its mounting than where separate connectors are used.

.Referring to thc accoinpsin drawings, illustrating the preferred forni my invention', Figure 1 shows a side .f oi a fuse mounted on an insulating-hpi ovided with the spring-clip of my invention. 2 is a left end view of Fig. 1, showing the springclip of my invention with a circuit-Wire connected thereto.

Like characters refer to like parte in the several figures. Y f Y The tubuiar or inciosediuse ALprovided with end connecting-caps 2 2, is prelr-mhly springs 4 and 5. vConductors 6 and 7 are preferably connected to the terminal clips 4 and 5, respectively, to connect the fuse inthe.'

circuit which it is to protect. spring 4 is preferably made of a single leafspring, formed, holes through the portions 8 9 to acronimo date a spindle 10 ofa fuse-terminal 2,lwhich preferably, as shoWn, with4 'l he terminal is securely clamped in place thereby when the opposite end of fuse 1 is pressed in place in lhe terminal spring 5, the terminal sprin i exerting a torsion on the spindle 10, an thereby securely `clamping saine in place. The terminal spring 4 is aise provided with a turned-up portion 11, cut away, as shown at i2 in Fig. 2, and a tongue portion 13, preferahiy formed, as shown, so as to partially ex. tend through the portion 1 1.

When the circuit conductor 6 is connested in place, the portion 11 is pressed toward the portion 8, and the conductor 6 is then inserted between the portion 11 and the tongue portion i3. When the portion 11 is released, it tends/to sprincr away from the portion, and thereby WitV the 'tongue portion 13 securely clamps the conductor 6 in place between 11 and 13, as shown in Fig. 1. The spring -terminal i is preferably mounted on the hase 3 hy a screw 14. The terminal 5 may be any-suitable spring-clip ada ted to grip the spindle 15 ofthe fuse.

hen the fuse 1 is put in place in the circuit, the spindle 1() is first inserted through the holes inthe portions 8 andi) of the spring-clip 4, the other end of fuse 1 being held in' a raised position. Then the said other end of fuso iis depressed into a slot in terniinai spring 5', 4Winch causes terminal spring i to put the s indle 10 of fuse 1 under a torsional stress to iold saine in the circuit.

' spring 4, which slightly tends to throw it out.

it Will readily he seen that thc spring-clip of my invention is very compact and that the parts are very readilyiaccessihle. The compactness of this clip 4 enables jme to Vroo make a much shorter mountingbase 3 for the' fuse than where separate connectors are used l'or the fuse und for lhc conductorrf.'` The lree end of 1portion l] and the portionl). Yorin good tliuni i-pieees to lrepresscd toward mounted on an insulating-ase #Shy 'Lei-mimi l pince in the clip.

nach other in insel-ling the conductor 6 in sei-ted throug I do not wish to limit this invention'to the i ro the other end thereof, clamping means near ring member and formed Y oneend of the s out of same, an axfuse having a terminal connectedwith the said clamping means whereby it is securely clamped in place, the I5 said tongue ortion being formed to he inthe said hole and coperating therewith to grip a circuit-comluctor to connect same in circuit with the fuse.

2. In apparatus o1' the character dcscribed, a spring member having two holes zo and a tongue portion near one end and a holev near the other end, a fuse having a terminal inserted through the said two holes and depressed whereby the fuse-terminal is placed under a leverafre, and the tongue portion be 25 ing formed to be inserted through the thirdmentioned hole. and cooperating therewith to grip a circuit-conductor to connect same in circuit with the fuse.

As inventor of the foregoing I hereunto 3o subscribe my namg, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 12th day of March 1906.

-FREDERICK ermittelt.

VWitnesses:

JNO. F. ToMiKINs, F. W. PARDEE. 

